I had a major crush on John Cullum after I saw him on stage. I have now met him TWICE and he is the most modest Southern gentleman you could ever meet. He’s had a wonderful career and is still trodding the boards on Broadway.
The most emotional of the songs is a really a tie, “Mama Look Sharp” and “Molasses, Rum, And Slaves”.
There was an article on him in the University of Tennessee alumni magazine a while back; my husband went to grad school there. Mr. Cullum seems like a very pleasant and intelligent man. He made some interesting comments, in the interview, about how his work as an actor was affected by the way people used language when he was growing up in the South ... the King James Version, and the old people’s echoes of Shakespeare, before everyone had television.
Anoreth has been in love with the movie version of John Adams since she was about 7 ... which leads me to believe she’ll never fall for a dope in real life!